DOVER — For the legislative session beginning on Jan. 2 in the state House of Representatives, a few bills on the agenda that may spark general interest, from matters relating to tinted glass in motor vehicles to whether the white potato should be set as the official state vegetable.

Minority Speaker Gene Chandler, who leads the Republican office, has proposed his own bill on the House Legislative Service Request (LSR) list, to find more funding for the New Hampshire Fish and Game Search and Rescue Fund. Chandler has proposed charging lost hikes and hunters for their costly recoveries, upward of hundreds of dollars.

“It’s been a problem for a few years,” Chandler said. “Fish and Game just can’t support it anymore.”

Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, R-Manchester, is the prime sponsor on some LSRs related to increasing certain speed limits to 70 miles per hour and 75 miles per hour while Rep. Karen Umberger, R-Conway, is the prime sponsor related to increasing a certain portion of I-93 to 70 miles per hour.

This year, House committees will also review a proposal to establish “Franklin Pierce Day,” the issue of taking lobster while engaged in recreational scuba diving and whether to allow companion dogs of restaurant owners in certain areas of a restaurant.

Rep. Mark McConkey, R-Freedom, has also put forward an LSR to establish orange, red and yellow as the official state colors, which the Concord Monitor says is an idea that came from a group of fourth graders at Freedom Elementary School.

Majority Speaker Terie Norelli, who has spent the last 16 years in the House, said she wishes young students would take interest in legislation already before the general court, rather than pushing for something new.

“You seriously appreciate the fact they are taking an interest in and becoming educated about the legislative process,” she said, “but if every fourth grade class asked their legislator to file a bill, we’d be overwhelmed.”

Rep. John O’Connor, R-Derry, is also pushing for the nod to the white potato, which the Monitor reports also came from a group of students at Derry Village School.

In general, Norelli explained there are dozens of new LSRs proposed and since every one will get a referral to a committee, there is a good side and a bad side to the process.

“The good side of the way we do it is that we can’t squash the majority and we can’t squash the minority,” Norelli said. “The bad side of it is it does take time to deal with bills that really aren’t going to go anywhere and takes time away from work that could be done on other bills.”